[GNC] Accidentally Created .LNK file and now my entire GnuCash file is overwritten and I can't get back to work

[Anita Graves]

Oh, Geert, I do so wish you were right.  However, I think you missed the sentence where I said that after the crash I unknowingly and unthinkingly and quickly in order to restore my screen, I clicked on ‘Open Anyway’ and that’s when my file was locked and this other ’thing’ called a .LNK sits right on top of my working file and there is nothing I can do to get rid of this.

What would happen if I delete the .LNK file?  Will my proper working file be restored?  Or would I delete my entire year’s worth of work?

Thank you.  Anita




> On 4 Nov 2018, at 16:54, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> Op zondag 4 november 2018 14:59:39 CET schreef Anita Graves via gnucash-user:
>> Dear Gnucash folks.  I just
>> read on the Internet that the file extension .LNK is a Windows file
>> shortcut.  What does that mean????  I don’t use Windows and thought I had
>> downloaded Gnucash for Mac. Thank you all. Anita
> 
> While on Windows the .LNK extension refers to a Windows shortcut, gnucash uses 
> it differently. It's one of the two files it creates to lock a book (the other 
> file will end in .LCK).
> In general you should not worry about those two files. If they exist that 
> means gnucash didn't close properly last time you used it. In other words: it 
> crashed. And that's what you said has happened. If they exist, gnucash will 
> warn you that your book is still locked as gnucash itself can't distinguish a 
> crash from another user having the book still open. As you know it's crashed 
> you can choose "Open anyway" and the locks will be reset. Of course as long as 
> *this* run of gnucash still has your book open, the .LCK and .LNK files will 
> remain. They only go away as gnucash quits. And even then, on my system 
> several .LNK files are still lingering next to my test books and they work 
> fine nonetheless.
> To conclude: the .LNK file is not your worry. You really can ignore or even 
> remove it.
> 
> Geert
> 
> 

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